My year of self-improvement: So what if I chain-chew Nicorette?

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Deborah Ross was going to transform her life in 2010. So how did she get on? The truth is revealed in her end-of-year report

Fitness

We are disappointed to report that, despite all her promises on January 1 last
year, Deborah has failed to even join a gym in the past 12 months, let alone
go to it. We found her excuse — “I did look around one, but it scared me” —
rather immature for someone of her age. Our records show that Deborah has
only ever attended one exercise class, a Jazzercise class in 1984, but left
early on the ground that “I thought I might vomit”. She then protested: “Why
jazz and exercise? Why not folkercise? Why, even, music and exercise? Why
not